#medical-science — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #medical-science, aggregated by home.social.
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New Algae Robots Swarm Like Locusts at the Flick of a Switch. Via @singularityhub #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑🔬 #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷
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One Rare Condition Seems to Protect The Brain From Schizophrenia. Via @sciencealert #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #neurology
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Обычно путь от лабораторного открытия до аптечного прилавка занимает **10–15 лет**, но история знает исключения, когда научный прорыв внедрялся в практику с невероятной скоростью.
Ниже приведены примеры самых быстрых «прыжков» из лаборатории в клинику:
### 1. Вакцины против COVID-19 (2020) — **~11 месяцев**
Это абсолютный рекорд в истории современной медицины.
* **Событие:** С момента публикации генетического кода вируса SARS-CoV-2 (январь 2020) до одобрения первой вакцины (декабрь 2020) прошло менее года.
* **Почему так быстро:** Использование готовых платформ мРНК, огромные инвестиции и совмещение фаз клинических испытаний.
### 2. Инсулин (1921–1922) — **~8 месяцев**
Один из самых драматичных и быстрых примеров спасения жизней.
* **Открытие:** Фредерик Бантинг и Чарльз Бест выделили инсулин летом 1921 года.
* **Внедрение:** Уже в январе 1922 года первую инъекцию получил 14-летний Леонард Томпсон, находившийся при смерти. Массовое производство началось практически сразу.
### 3. Пенициллин (во время Второй мировой войны) — **~3–4 года**
Хотя Александр Флеминг открыл его в 1928 году, вещество оставалось «лабораторным курьезом» более 10 лет.
* **Рывок:** В 1940 году группа Флори и Чейна доказала эффективность на мышах. К 1943–1944 годам, под давлением нужд фронта, США развернули промышленное производство, превратив научную статью в стандарт лечения инфекций за считанные годы.
### 4. Современные таргетные препараты (Осимертиниб) — **~2.7 года**
В сфере онкологии обычно всё очень долго, но препарат **Osimertinib** (для лечения рака легких) прошел путь от первых тестов на людях до одобрения FDA невероятно быстро.
* **Срок:** Первая фаза испытаний началась в марте 2013 года, а ускоренное одобрение было получено уже в ноябре 2015 года (всего **984 дня**).
### 5. Диэтиловый эфир (анестезия, 1846) — **несколько недель**
Пример того, как открытие распространялось до появления жесткого регулирования.
* **Событие:** 16 октября 1846 года Уильям Мортон публично продемонстрировал эфирный наркоз.
* **Внедрение:** Уже через несколько месяцев операции под наркозом начали проводить по всему миру, включая Европу и Российскую империю (Николай Пирогов применил его в полевых условиях уже в 1847 году).
### Что мешает делать это быстрее сегодня?
Сегодня средний срок в 12 лет обусловлен не медлительностью ученых, а **безопасностью**:
1. **Клинические фазы:** Проверка на токсичность, эффективность и отдаленные последствия.
2. **Регуляция:** Бюрократические фильтры (FDA, EMA), которые отсеивают до 90% кандидатов на стадии испытаний.
3. **«Долина смерти»:** Проблема финансирования этапа между лабораторным успехом и началом дорогих испытаний на людях.
**Будущее:** С применением **ИИ** (как в случае с антибиотиком *Halicin* или препаратом *DSP-1181*) этап поиска нужной молекулы сокращается с лет до месяцев, что в теории может ускорить весь цикл разработки лекарств в 2–3 раза.Вот подборка хэштегов, разделенных по тематикам, которые соответствуют контексту медицинских прорывов и технологий:
### Основные (на русском)
#медицина #наука #здоровье #технологии #инновации #открытия #биотехнологии #будущее #врачи #фармацевтика
### Профессиональные и узкие
#medicalscience #biotech #Rnd #клиническиеисследования #мРНК #геннаяинженерия #фарма #medtech
### Тренды и ИИ
#AIinMedicine #ИИвмедицине #цифроваямедицина #HealthTech #Biohacking #биохакинг
### Исторический контекст
#историямедицины #научныйпрорыв #пенициллин #инсулин #научныйфакт
### Для охватов (на английском)
#medicine #science #breakthrough #innovation #healthcare #futureofmedicine #medicaldiscovery
**Совет:** Если вы планируете пост в Telegram или Instagram, лучше использовать 5–7 наиболее релевантных хэштегов (например, 2 широких, 2 тематических и 1–2 на английском), чтобы не перегружать текст и не попадать под фильтры спама.Этот материал публикуется под лицензией **Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)**. Вы можете свободно копировать, изменять и использовать этот текст в любых целях (включая коммерческие). Обязательное условие — указание авторства и ссылки на источник.
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Some gene therapies no longer require clinical trials, thanks to new FDA rule. Is this safe, and who will it help?. Via @live_science #Health ❤️🩹 🧑⚕️ #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #Science #CRISPR 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑🔬
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A Single Dose of Psilocybin Induces Lasting Brain Changes, New Study Suggests. Via @sciencealert #Health ❤️🩹 🧑⚕️ #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #neurology
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How a vision-restoring gene therapy proved that we can treat inherited diseases. Via @scientific_american #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑🔬 #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷
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World ‘unprepared’ for next pandemic as countries fail to agree on sharing information, tests and vaccines. Via @guardian #Health ❤️🩹 🧑⚕️ #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷
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What My Father’s Experience Taught Me About Memory and the Brain. Via @nytimes #Health ❤️🩹 🧑⚕️ #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #neurology
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The brain's memory center doesn't start as a blank slate, study suggests. Via @live_science #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑🔬 #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #neurology
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Johnson & Johnson completes clinical study for OTTAVA robotic surgical system - Via @therobotreport #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🧠 #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #Robotics 🤖
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An AI Just Beat Doctors at Diagnosing ER Patients. Via @singularityhub #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠 #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷
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Some Signs of Depression May Show Up in Blood, Study Finds. Via @sciencealert #Health ❤️🩹 🧑⚕️ #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #neurology #MentalHealth
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Seattle Statement on Glyphosate and Public Health
This statement was finalized and adopted at the Seattle Glyphosate Symposium, which took place 25-26 March, 2026 in Seattle, Washington. The statement’s authors are listed below.
Glyphosate, a broad-spectrum herbicide (plant killer) typically marketed as Roundup, is the world’s most widely used pesticide. The diversity and magnitude of glyphosate uses in agriculture, in forestry and in industrial, commercial, residential and municipal settings have grown dramatically since first approval in 1974.
Humans are exposed to glyphosate through direct spraying and other skin contact, through occupational or residential proximity to sprayed areas, through exposure to dust and through consumption of food and water contaminated with glyphosate residues. Food is the main route of exposure for most people while occupational exposures are typically the highest.
National and international biomonitoring surveys detect glyphosate in samples collected from 70-80% of all people examined, including children.
Glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) harm human health and can cause cancer. The comprehensive evidence supports this conclusion, with the strongest epidemiological evidence linking exposure to increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system.
There is additional evidence from human and/or animal studies that glyphosate and GBHs increase the risk of multiple adverse health effects in addition to cancer, including diseases of the kidney and liver, and impacts to the reproductive, endocrine, neurological, and other metabolic systems. Children, infants and fetuses are the most susceptible.
Further strong evidence finds that glyphosate and GBHs cause genetic damage, oxidative stress, and hormonal disruption — biological changes that can set disease in motion. Our understanding of glyphosate’s ability to cause these changes has developed from multiple lines of evidence in animal, human and in vitro studies.
Additional research is needed to better understand the full extent of glyphosate’s and GBH’s effects on human health and the underlying mechanisms involved, such as epigenetic alterations, microbiome disruption and endocrine effects.
The evidence that glyphosate and GBHs harm human health at levels of current use is now so strong that no additional delays in regulation of glyphosate can be justified. Regulatory agencies in countries around the world should treat glyphosate and GBHs as hazardous, as some countries have started to do. Agencies should act without further delay to limit their use, or eliminate them if legally required, to protect public health.
Preventive measures to reduce human exposures while handling and applying glyphosate are accessible, proven effective, and inexpensive. These actions should be implemented without delay while research continues.
Safeguards must be implemented to ensure that any reduction in glyphosate use does not result in regrettable increases in the use of other equally or more harmful pesticides, for example paraquat.
Glyphosate is not the only pesticide that has been inadequately evaluated or regulated. The approval processes globally for all existing and new pesticides are weak and fail to protect human health, especially the health of infants and children. This system needs to be fundamentally revised. Regulatory agencies need to make pesticide approval decisions based on a more comprehensive and unbiased suite of health effects data. If pesticide use is approved, these agencies must closely monitor use, exposure data and harmful outcomes, especially for susceptible and highly exposed groups. The costs of obtaining such data must be borne by the pesticide industry, but the testing must be conducted by laboratories and organizations independent of the pesticide industry and free from financial conflicts of interest (COI), defined as funding from industries and trade associations that have a financial stake in the outcome.
Risk-assessment methods and processes used to evaluate pesticides must be updated to use best-available science, including: using transparent, consistent and unbiased approaches to evaluate all the evidence; accounting for human variability and susceptible populations such as fetuses, infants and children, and highly exposed populations such as farmworkers; accounting for cumulative exposures and risks for pesticides that contribute to common adverse health outcomes; and identifying adverse health effects and risks at all exposure levels. This is clearly not the case now.
All scientific evidence used in pesticide evaluations must be publicly available, not labeled proprietary or restricted to active ingredients, and must comply with laws protecting human subjects in research. Financial COI, which do not include government funding, must be addressed throughout the research and regulatory processes, including accounting for bias from industry-funded studies, and ensuring that individuals with financial COI are barred from participating in scientific advisory panels and other bodies that formally review scientific data.
Ultimately, pesticide use must be reduced overall, and eliminated to the extent possible. This is consistent with the United Nations Global Biodiversity Framework global target to reduce pesticide risks by 50% by 2030 relative to 2010–2020 and replace pesticides with safer, more sustainable pest control systems that rely more on prevention than treatment. This is imperative for the health of humans, ecosystems and future generations.
Signed by (Affiliations noted for identification purposes only)
Lianne Sheppard, PhD
University of Washington, Seattle, WashingtonNathan Donley, PhD
Center for Biological Diversity, Olympia, WashingtonCynthia Curl, MS, PhD
School of Public and Population Health, Boise State University, Boise, IdahoLuoping Zhang, PhD, MS
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CaliforniaRashmi Joglekar, PhD
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CaliforniaDr. Kurt Straif, MD, PhD
Boston College, Massachusetts, and ISGlobal, Barcelona, SpainAudrey E. Tran Lam, MPH
Center for Energy & Environmental Education, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IowaDr. Lee A. Evslin, MD, FAAP
Hawaii Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Kapaa, HawaiiAlice Livingston-Ortolani, PhD
University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomBrenda Eskenazi, PhD
School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CaliforniaPeter Clausing, PhD
Pesticide Action Network, GermanyMaryse F. Bouchard, PhD
Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montréal, CanadaRobin Mesnage, PhD
King’s College London, Department of Nutritional Sciences, GermanyNaomi Oreskes, PhD
Harvard University, Cambridge, MassachusettsGrant Hopkins
University of Washington, Seattle, WashingtonRobert Gunier, PhD
School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CaliforniaNaila Khalil, MBBS, MPH, PhD
Wright State University, Dayton, OhioAmanda Claire Starbuck, MA
Food & Water Watch, Longmont, ColoradoJohann Zaller, PhD
BOKU University, Institute of Zoology, Vienna, AustriaDr. Janet Perlman, MD, MPH, FAAP
University of California at San Francisco, Berkeley, CaliforniaDr. Eve Shapiro, MD, MPH
Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Tucson, ArizonaDr. Dianne Glover, MD
Providence/Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WashingtonSun-Young Kim, PhD
National Cancer Center of Korea, Goyang, KoreaMuhammad Zahid, PhD, MPH
College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NebraskaAndrew Smith, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, Rodale Institute, Kutztown, PennsylvaniaTracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CaliforniaDr. Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, FAAP
Boston College, Boston, MassachusettsChristopher J. Portier, PhD
Former Director, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Former Director, National Center for Environmental Health, Former Associate Director, National Toxicology Program, Thune, SwitzerlandDr. Daniele Mandrioli, MD, PhD
Secretary General, Collegium Ramazzini, Bologna, ItalyDr. Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, CanadaCharles Benbrook, PhD
Benbrook Consulting Services, Lakeville, MaineDr. Beate Ritz, MD, PhD, FSPH
University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CaliforniaAlexandra Muñoz, MS, PhD
Independent Toxicologist, Miami, FloridaAnne Riederer, PhD
University of Washington, Seattle, WashingtonJennifer Fung, PhD
University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CaliforniaCatherine Hong
University of Washington, Seattle, WashingtonKarie L. Knoke
Benbrook Consulting Service, Sandpoint, IdahoDr. Dennis D. Weisenburger, MD
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NebraskaAlexander A. Kaurov, PhD
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New ZealandKelly Ryerson, MBA
American Regeneration, Miami, FloridaYogi Hendlin, PhD
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsMelinda Hemmelgarn, MS, RD
Beyond Pesticides, Columbia, MissouriKendra Klein, PhD
Friends of the Earth, Washington D.C.Erik Millstone, PhD
Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, England, United KingdomNoreen Mucha, MPA
Wisconsin Organics, Waukesha, WisconsinDr. Kambria Beck Holder, MD
Family Physician, Kilauea, HawaiiDr. Stephanie Blount, MD
Pediatrician, West Palm Beach, FloridaCarsten A. Brühl, PhD
Technical University Kaiserslautern – Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Landau, GermanyDr. Ana M. Mora, MD, PhD
School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CaliforniaDr. Michael W. Schwartz, MD
#BigGovt #health #law #medicalScience #poison
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Why Your Brain Can Read Scrambled Words, According to Science. Via @sciencealert #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑🔬 #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #neurology
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Here's Why Your Brain Shuts Down During Arguments, And What Helps. Via @sciencealert #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #neurology #MentalHealth
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AI can reason like a physician—what comes next? Via @sciencemagazine #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠 #Health ❤️🩹 🧑⚕️ #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷
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People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia – what this tells us about the psychiatric condition
#Health #Schizophrenia #Neuroscience #MentalHealth #BrainScience #CognitiveScience #MedicalScience #BrainDevelopment #Psychiatry #Blindness
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IMHO: Any law restricting scientifically proven medical care is MALPRACTICE, and should be litigated as such.
Politicians are not Doctors, and have no right to deny medical care on any basis. Abortion, Vaccines, Transgender care - all of it is not in the purview of non medically educated politicians, and every single one of them who proposes or supports these laws needs to be sued for malpractice and interference, until it is not politically acceptable to interfere.
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The Discovery of Stem Cells
Canadian scientists James Till and Ernest McCulloch proved the existence of stem cells in 1961, opening doors to regenerative medicine and cancer research. Their work remains foundational in medical science. 🧬
🇨🇦 #Canada #MedicalScience #StemCells #Research
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/stem-cell-research
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AI Can Spot Pancreatic Cancer Years Before Diagnosis, Study Finds. Via @sciencealert #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠 #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #Oncology
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AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses. Via @guardian #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠 #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷
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Active-duty US soldiers to receive MDMA therapy for PTSD next year. Via @guardian #Health ❤️🩹 🧑⚕️ #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #MentalHealth #Veterans 🇺🇸
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In the 1930s, Robert E. Cornish Constructed a Bizarre Tilting Table to Reverse Death.
His story continues to fascinate because of its blend of brilliance, ambition, ethical questions, and the visually striking image of a body rocking on a giant see-saw in a desperate bid to cheat death
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How Does Imagination Really Work in the Brain? New Theory Upends What We Knew. Via @singularityhub #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑🔬 #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #neurology
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Student Finds the Psychedelic Fungus the Inventor of LSD Spent His Life Searching For
#brainScience #medicalScience #scienceThe discovery could reshape how we study psychedelic compounds in nature and medicine
At West Virginia University (WVU), Corinne Hazel, an undergraduate major in environmental microbiology, examined morning glory plants for signs of protective chemicals. She wasn’t looking for new drugs or anything psychedelic. But nestled in the folds of a tiny seed coat was a hint of white fuzz.
That fuzz turned out to be a fungus that scientists had been seeking since the 1930s. And this included Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who first synthesized LSD.
Hofmann offered the world LSD in the late 1930s by modifying a compound called lysergic acid, which he extracted from the ergot fungus Claviceps purpurea. That fungus grows on rye and other grains and is well-known for producing ergot alkaloids, a group of chemicals that can be toxic or medicinal depending on the dose.
Hofmann and others searched the plants for a fungus related to Claviceps purpurea, the rye-dwelling microbe that produces ergot alkaloids, a group of potent compounds with powerful biological effects. But for decades, that fungus remained a phantom.
Hazel found it almost by accident.
“We had a ton of plants lying around and they had these tiny little seed coats,” she said. “We noticed a little bit of fuzz in the seed coat. That was our fungus.”
With Panaccione’s guidance, Hazel extracted DNA from the fuzz and sent it for sequencing. The results confirmed what generations of chemists and botanists had only suspected: the morning glory harbored a previously unknown species of ergot-producing fungus.
“Sequencing a genome is a significant thing,” Panaccione said. “It’s amazing for a student.”
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Your Pleasant Memories Can Vanish For a Surprisingly Simple Reason. Via @sciencealert #Health ❤️🩹 🧑⚕️ #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #neurology #MentalHealth
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Health Freedom Defense Fund: ‘Your voice matters more than you can imagine’
#BigGovt #BigPharma #freedom #health #law #medicalScience #pragmatismLeah Wilson just said the quiet part out loud:
“Health freedom is the largest, strongest single issue voting bloc in America today.”
“We are America’s new majority.”
“We are independent from any party.”
“And we are stronger than ever.”
She declared that Bayer-Monsanto’s push for a pesticide liability shield is “exactly what happened in 1986 when Congress gave a liability shield to vaccine makers.”
“It was a bad use of tort reform then, and it’s a bad use with pesticides today.”
“So let the record show, just like we did in 2024, we’re gonna show up and decide the elections in 2026.”
“Your voice matters more than you can imagine.”
“And it’s about to matter even more in the 2026 midterm elections.”
